Interpol Stands Up to Putin

The international police organization Interpol on Friday rejected Russia's request for help in arresting a hedge-fund chief who has accused the Russians of looting his fund.

William Browder, a London-based investor, has stubbornly railed against Russian corruption since the arrest and death in a Moscow prison of Sergei Magnitsky -- a lawyer for Browder's Hermitage Capital. Magnitsky exposed a $230 million tax fraud that seemed to involve Russian police, tax officials and organized criminals (see "Crime and Punishment...